The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Rs.20 per hour for cars, Rs.10 per hour for two-wheelers now. Soon visitors to South Delhi will have to pay double for a parking spot, with the Standing Committee of the local civic body on Thursday passing a proposal to hike rates. Parking rates will be hiked from Rs.10 to …
It's A Piecemeal Approach, They Say, As BBMP Selects 85 Roads For Differential Paid Parking System Park and pay is set to be a reality in many city areas. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has identified 85 roads where differential paid parking system will be implemented.But the moot question …
Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner M Angamuthu is among the recipients of a notice that seeks all establishments situated between Khanapara and Bharalu to inform the administration within a month if they have parking provisions or not. This information, according to the deputy commissioner, will just be the precursor of an …
19 sites declared free of charge by NDMC, but mafia demanding up to Rs. 40 Brazenly flouting the law, parking contractors across north Delhi are charging customers up to Rs. 40 for a spot in free-parking zones. Nineteen parking sites were declared to be free of charge by the North …
In a major setback to the Delhiites, lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung has directed the civic agencies to increase the parking rates in various markets across the national capital. Mr Jung has directed the civic bodies to levy a congestion charge in some of the city’s most crowded markets in order to …
Environmentalist and writer Sunita Narain on Wednesday said parking charges should be on a par with the real estate prices in the area. "Why should parking be so cheap or free? Can we run offices like that," she asked while addressing a lecture organised by Transparent Chennai, a city-based non-governmental …
Delhi’s ever-increasing population has added to the parking woes in the national capital, which in turn has boosted the power of the parking mafia. The city’s municipal bodies have failed to provide a solution to the growing parking problem in the last several years. The South and North Municipal Corporations, …
Contractors, Thugs Control Every Parking Lot And Fleece Citizens At Will For rogue parking contractors in the city, who corner all tenders for parking lots, the city’s acute shortage of parking space has become a veritable windfall and a source to milk hapless citizens dry. The demand has always been …
Rush hour gridlocks, haphazard parking of vehicles on the roadsides, ever-increasing levels of hazardous air pollution and traffic bottlenecks. All this and more are a mundane sight for any commuter, who struggles to make way through the roads of Chandigarh, a city that spreads over an area of 114 sq …
Dip in Municipal Corporation’s revenue as 13 parking lots on Ferozepur road merged. Now the residents have to pay for parking their vehicles at the leading markets of the city: Sarabha Nagar main market, Ghumar Mandi, Sarabha Nagar-I block and Malhar road. The Municipal Corporation auctioned four new parking lots …
Governments need to re-evaluate existing approaches to environmental norms while improving on delivery of services under existing laws to improve sustainable and inclusive governance, urged the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a not-for-profit organisation and think-tank. Releasing its ‘Environment and Development Agenda’ for the new government, the organisation proposed …
The overarching objective of the parking policy is to develop parking places and organise parking activities for all types of modes of transport .The policy also aims to discourage daily usage of personalized motorized vehicles, promotion of mass transportation and use of non-motorized transport system.
Michael Greenstone of MIT says almost 6.28 mn population in 281 districts of India is exposed to health risks due to poor adherence to pollution standards India’s over 121 billion strong population stands to gain almost 3.3 years of their life if all parts of the country adhere to the …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Thursday called a meeting of all stakeholders to draw a consensus on “substantially increasing” parking charges in the city in a bid to reduce congestion in the available parking lots. Chief Secretary P K Tripathi is learnt to have suggested the need for optimising the surface …
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has taken the first step towards commencing the process of registration and licensing of cycle-rickshaws by framing draft guidelines in compliance with the directions of the Delhi High Court. On Tuesday, the matter was laid before the NDMC Standing Committee, but members postponed it till …
The objective of the parking parking policy are: To encourage the people to use the public transport system by giving preferential treatment to public transport over motorized individual modes; To reduce the traffic congestion on roads; To reduce the people to obey the traffic rules and park the vehicles only …
The Centre for Science and Environment that has been advocating urgent parking reforms to reduce personal vehicle usage to cut congestion and pollution welcomes the new proposal of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to hike parking charges substantially in the city as a step towards further reform.
The international conference organized by CSE in New Delhi on August 17, 2011 called for a parking strategy for better management that can control traffic chaos as well as dampen parking demand & car usage.
Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the most powerful instruments to reduce travel by personal vehicles that also influences commuting choices in favour of public transport. Parking management when combined with appropriately priced parking, limit on parking space and improved access through other modes of transport, …
CSE releases findings on parking in Sarojini Nagar and the lessons from it. Says without a clear strategy, expensive parking structures can neither reduce parking chaos nor parking demand. CSE survey shows car users will shift to other modes of transport only if they are forced to pay three times …
